45
Therefore he ran upon him courageously through the midst of the battle, slaying on the right hand and on the left, so that they were divided from him on both sides.
46
This done, he crept under the elephant and thrust him underneath and slew him, whereupon the elephant fell down upon him, and there he died.
47
However the rest of the Jews, seeing the strength of the king and the violence of his forces, turned away from them.
48
Then the king's army went up to Jerusalem to meet them, and the king pitched his tents against Judea, and against Mount Zion.
49
But with those who were in Beth-zur he made peace, for they came out of the city because they had no victuals there to endure the siege, it being a year of rest for the land.
50
So the king took Beth-zur, and set a garrison there to keep it.
51
As for the sanctuary, he besieged it many days, and set there artillery with engines and instruments to cast fire and stones, and pieces to cast darts and slings.
52
Thereupon the Jews also made engines against their engines, and held them in battle a long season.
53
Yet at the last, their vessels being without victuals (for it was the seventh year, and those in Judea who were delivered from the Gentiles had eaten up the residue of the stores),
54
there were but a few left in the sanctuary, because the famine did so prevail against them that they were fain to disperse themselves, every man to his own place.
55
At that time Lysias heard it said that Philip (whom Antiochus the king, while he lived, had appointed to bring up his son Antiochus, that he might be king)